Elevation of Cárdenas, Matanzas, Cuba

Cárdenas, Matanzas, Cuba is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Cárdenas's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet. GeoNames reads 9 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 10 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 32 m

Mean 6 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 32 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 15

among the towns of Matanzas, and 144th of 156 in Cuba.

Nearest town

Varadero

18.2 km to the NW, at 0 m, 5 m lower.

Cross-section through Cárdenas

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Cárdenas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 81 m at 14 km west to 10 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 40 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around Cárdenas, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 58 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Cárdenas

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Varadero	18.2 km	NW	0 m (0 ft)	−5 m
Limonar	23.1 km	SW	67 m (220 ft)	+62 m
Jovellanos	25.8 km	S	44 m (144 ft)	+39 m
Martí	30.8 km	E	16 m (52 ft)	+11 m
Perico	35.4 km	SE	34 m (112 ft)	+29 m

Where Cárdenas is

Latitude 23.0427778, longitude -81.2036111. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Cárdenas's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 9 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.